The praises which it has received from Mr. […] The priestess then loosed it ; it was washed ; a kind of cakes were set before it, and it was brought back to the temple524. […] Interror the pirates carried it back to the shore, and made an offering of cakes to appease it. They then departed, and next day the rude ignorant people of the isle, in their search after it, finding it on the sea-shore, thought it had run away of itself, and bound it to a willow to prevent its doing so again. Admeta then loosed it and restored it to its place in the temple, and hence it was said arose the annual ceremony.